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They would count on more defections from the Taliban rather than a military attack, he said.

It is their army that is taking the lead against the Taliban, rather than outsiders".

Yet the tone of both presidents on Wednesday leaned strongly toward fighting the Taliban rather than making peace with them.

We can say that we are in Afghanistan because we were kidnapped by the Taliban, rather than really figuring out what we are doing there now, and why.

Separately, the report also described concerns that the Pakistani military had killed unarmed members of the Taliban, rather than put them on trial.

So far there have been no signals from Mullah Naquib, who joined the Taliban rather than fight them when they took Kandahar in 1994.

The enemy now was Taliban Islamofascists rather than Kremlin totalitarians.

Pakistanis favor negotiating with Taliban militants rather than fighting them and they hold the United States most responsible for violence in the country, according to a new poll.

KABUL, Afghanistan — International and local human rights groups working in Afghanistan have shifted their focus toward condemning abuses committed by the Taliban insurgents, rather than those attributed to the American military and its allies.

A high-level former intelligence official talked about how the air attacks had "contained" bin Laden and the Taliban leadership, rather than about the prospect of actually capturing him.

This would also allow the Pakistani state to fully extend its authority into Taliban territory, rather than simply cutting a deal with the militants.